“I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.” PeopleLittlesPlayCharacterDealsLaughingStageFrontsTheater Book:Penny Candy Source: Penny Candy
“Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get, and how good you can be in them. In movie roles, you can actually improve them by knowing a lot about your own stage technique, which helps a great deal in the cinema and how you can project inner humor even though the particular dialogue is not necessarily funny, but you can infuse it with humor.” KnowsKindHelpingLiteratureDealsRolesKnowingWrittenStageParticularMastersKingsProjectsTheaterTechniqueDialogueCinemaLearAccolades Author:Christopher Plummer
“Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with Universal, and it's been fun to work with them. But studios are a part of our life. I think they'll always be, but they'll play a different role. The consumer and the creator are getting closer together.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksDifferentPlayTogetherFunDealsRolesOur LivesUniversalTheaterCreatorStudiosConsumers Author:Jason Blum
“Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingFirstsStoriesUseDealsBreakTheaterMy WayBreaking DownOutlinesGood Endings Author:Julie Andrews
“To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.” PeopleSelfCharacterHomeSpeakDealsRaceWatchesAcceptanceWillingAmountConsciousSittingToughCapacityAspectTheaterRadioBeachBuyingWillingnessTicketsOffensiveSelf ConsciousLivelyInterferenceSubwayFrenzyAmerican Character Author:Alistair Cooke